It’s both sad and despicable that the political leaders of San Francisco DON’T GIVE A DAMN about the homeless. They only care about growing their own power and wealth:
It’s both sad and despicable that the political leaders of San Francisco DON’T GIVE A DAMN about the homeless. They only care about growing their own power and wealth:
“The only way we can survive is if people start using their heads.”
OK, so that’s out – any other ideas?
As soon as you try to fix it and make it nice, the politicians will stuff it full of new immigrants…
You can’t win until you get rid of the government and their interference.
Please, please, postpone the apocalypse until I exit life’s stage. It won’t be long.
With you there.
Not immigrants! Illegal aliens.
Immigrants go through the immigration process
Dirty little secret of the Welfare State – the primary beneficiaries of the Welfare State are the well-paid administrators, not the poor. You could write a fairly simple computer program to spit out checks to the poor and, with less money than we’re spending now on all the various welfare programs, there would instantly be no more poverty, but thousands of bureaucrats who have a vested interest in keeping the poverty numbers as high as possible would be out of a job with no hope of ever getting a comparable job in the private sector.
(A second dirty little secret involves delving into the racial make-up of the administrators of the Welfare State, but we dare not go there.)
Oh, I agree! With the start of “Social Work” degrees from universities in the mid-1960’s, it has and will be in the vested interests to keep the “poor people” industry going. And Social Workers make good money.
On a similar vein of thought, I disagree with Food Banks. When I was struggling financially in the early 1990’s, I shopped at No Frills, ate plain meals and cooked and baked from scratch. And, I always had my glass of wine with dinner at night.
10 years ago, the women whom I worked with at the cleaning company, always ran out of money towards the end of the month and would use food banks. The money they DID have, went to cigarettes, beer, fake finger nails and tattoos. And they would complain about what was on offer at the food banks!
I went through similar hard times during much of the 1980s, starting with the period in the aftermath of NEP I. I was able to get on the dole and was able to pay my bills and my rent from it. Not much money for luxuries, though.
Meh….I drove a Cab in the 80’s (NEP), after 2.5 yrs of apprenticing as a welder in Calgary. I was short 300 hrs from a Journeyman ticket. One could not Buy a job in this city.
Then in 84 decided to get some more eduction and went to SAIT, took the Welding Engineering Technology program – still drove Cab on the Weekends while I grew and sold some pretty good Weed (to sell in the Cab). I make no apologies, One did what one had to in order to pay the rent and put food on the table.
Graduated with honours, and found a good job within 6 months of completing the course….IN Ontario however. I didn’t come back till 1997 with 2 kids and a wife in tow.! NO regrets.
Seems today though…everyone looks to Govt for Handouts…I suspect (SADLY), we will def see a UBI
Good on you Steakman.
You did it your way.
Two weeks ago I got a cheque from the US treasury for an economic impact payment of $4200. I thought “this must be a mistake!” Then yesterday I got a letter from Presidents Biden’s office confirming that I was sent $4200 because he signed his America Rescue Plan in March 11, 2021. Welcome to inflation, my friends. This cheque while a lot of money, makes me agree you Steak that UBI is going to happen.
Back in the 1980s, I took whatever work I could get because, after a year, my pogey was running out. Often, that resulted in me working long enough to qualify for you-know-what again, and, no, that wasn’t my choice.
At one place, I had the rug pulled out from under me soon after I started. At another, I was laid off after 3 months, possibly because I refused to put my seal on drawings and designs that I had nothing to do with. (Legally and ethically, I was correct to do that. Had I sealed them, I would have taken responsibility for whatever happened after that.)
I’ve dealt with potential employers who refused to believe that such things went on.
At a relative’s church, local farmers donated fresh carrots and potatoes for those in need (to use that term loosely here). Aside from a little dirt, nothing was wrong with them. These “poor people” turned their noses at the produce, texted each other on their cell phones in their bejewelled cases and met up at Tim Horton’s.
Yep.
You’ve got that right. How breathlessly they spend our money on themselves. Collect the revenues first, then decide what “policy” it will serve. Yet these clowns still spend every penny and borrow whatever they can get. We are led by imbeciles.
They don’t know it, in fact consider themselves quite brilliant so not subject to affirmation from the great unwashed.
Now we have a global minimum corporate tax. Now both bookends of coercion are in place. The poor cannot escape carbon taxes, while the global rich (not Twitter of course, or Facebook or ….) apparently cannot escape global corporate taxes.
Yes, they can. It is the individual who cannot escape the inflationary government, where, like a drug addict, the least they need is the most they can get. But the leviathan is running out of veins to drain.
Nicole Saphier, in her book “Panic Attack,” makes this amazing quote on “following science” which equally applies to economics: “Panic Attack is what happens when one party declares they are the party of science and then assumes everything they want to be true is now scientific.” … “Experts are great at providing information – they’re not great at communicating it in ways that prevent power hungry and panicked politicians from using the information to achieve partisan goals.”
That’s just in the Introduction.
Looking forward to digging into a well written book that may not make it to camping reading.
A book is always better the second time through anyway.
Our betters have always made good money pretending to manage supposedly intractable problems at our expense.
The only supposed problem they ever took seriously enough to try to solve once and for all is the Jewish “problem.”
If there is a poverty industry, then by definition politicians have to “give a damn” about the homeless. Low information people always make this mistake. The second mistake mid wits always make, is in identifying the motivations.
The political interest in the homeless, is making more of them.
Evil to the left of me, no one to the right. Here I am stuck in the midwit with you.
They complain about all the problems their state is in. Yet like a bunch of brainless automatons, they march down to the polls every few years and reelect the same destructive despots that created the mess in the first place, over and over again. You reap what you sew.
Well … at least the homeless and … underserved … *ahem* … communities will now be getting HEALTHY … LOCALLY sourced produce.
https://www.specialtyfood.com/news/article/biden-administration-spend-1-billion-food-sourcing/
Yes. While you find it more and more difficult to stretch your own food budget in these HYPER-inflationary times … your government is bidding UP those food prices. It’s like a Californian selling their home for $5M and buying into Idaho … pricing the locals out of the market
Thanks Dementia Joe-Heiress
Michael Anton’s book The Stakes offers a side splittingly funny synopsis of California in Chapter One. The plan is to turn all of America into California. Canada already is.
San Francisco was also the setting for some good movies, such as The Maltese Falcon, Bullitt, and Dirty Harry.
Okay, so there are FOUR good things to come out of San Francisco. 🙂
You should look for Lowell Green’s book, MAYDAY MAYDAY, published in 2010. The more things change the more they remain the same.
Those who are truly poor or disadvantaged in some way will be the victims of this particular grievance industry when people become jaded.
The government is scum. Let’s not forget that.
Oldest business in the world.
Every parasite gets a percentage,thus the more poor people,the greater their gain.
These creatures exist to create poor people,the myth of Dracula probably arose from a village that could not banish their “helpers”.